Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966) is an Austrian poet writing in

Slovenian Slovene or Slovenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe * Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia * Slovenes The Slovenes, also known as Slovenians ( sl, Sloven ...

. She was born in Bad Eisenkappel in the Austrian state of

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and is the daughter of the Carinthian Slovenian author

Florjan Lipuš Florjan Lipuš (born 4 May 1937 in Lobnig above Bad Eisenkappel, Austria) is a Carinthian Slovene writer and translator. Since 1985 he has been a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Awards * 2004: Prešeren Awar ...

. She attended the high school for Slovenes in Klagenfurt. She studied comparative literature and Slavic studies at the University of Vienna and University of Klagenfurt. She lived in the United States from the early 1990s to 2009 and studied library and information sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Salzburg, Austria, in 2009. She began writing poems while still in her teens and edited her first collection, ''V lunini senci'' (In the Shadow of the Moon) in 1985. Four years later ''Pragovi dneva'' (Thresholds of the Day) was published, which was followed by ''Doba temnjenja'' (Times of Darkness) in 1993. Her fourth volume of poems, ''Geografija bližine'' (Geography of Closeness), appeared in 2000. In 2003, she published ''Spregatev milosti'' (Conjugating Mercy). This was followed by ''Obleganje sreče'' (Siege of Happiness, 2008), ''Pojdimo vezat kosti'' (Let's Go Tie Up Some Bones, 2010), and ''Kaj smo, ko smo'' (What We Are When We Are, 2015)of which the English translation was nominated for the Canadia
Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry
2019. Lipuš has received numerous prizes, and her poems have been translated into several other languages, including English,

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, and

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Unterm Schutzdach der Liebe. Eine Annäherung an die Kärntner Lyrikerin Cvetka Lipus
Article in the newspaper ''Wiener Zeitung'', April 21, 2000
About Cvetka LipušPoetry collection ''What We Are When We Are''
1966 births Living people University of Klagenfurt alumni University of Vienna alumni Austrian women poets Slovenian women poets Slovenian poets Carinthian Slovenes {{slovenia-poet-stub